Projects

Bristol has been home to a range of successful and innovative digital inclusion projects. We have captured our experiences and some of the lessons learned here.

Open Data – Tough Decisions

by Stephen Hilton 28/07/2010 in Bristol

Today was the closing date for submissions to the Bristol B-Open competition and I am delighted to hear that we have had 11+ proposals for innovative open data projects from Bristol companies. The expert panel (and me) will be shortlisting over the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed we will be able to commission [...]

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Bristol ICT Refurbishment & Reuse Scheme Providers Day – 7th July

by Lorraine 23/06/2010 in Bristol

We are holding a Bristol ICT Refurbishment and Reuse Scheme Providers Day on July 7th from 9.30-11:30 at the Council House.  Register for your place  at http://ictrecycling.eventbrite.com/
We want to support the development of an independent and self-supporting Bristol ICT Refurbishment and Reuse Scheme which is able to operate citywide and will act as a framework for distributing our redundant [...]

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B-Open – Bristol Open Data Innovation

by sarah 07/06/2010 in Bristol

B-Open innovative data projects competition, part of Media Sandbox 2010, is now live.
B-Open is one of the digital city projects being developed by Connecting Bristol in support of the 20-20 City Strategy. Its about openly sharing council/city data and working with local digital businesses and communities to create new applications and services that bring added [...]

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Computer Drop-in Sessions at Knowle West Media Centre

by Stephen Hilton 20/04/2010 in Projects

In this video Martin describes what happens at the Computer drop-in sessions that Knowle West Media Centre holds every Wednesday between 10am and 3.30pm.  These sessions form part of the South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods programme.
Martin says these sessions are  ‘informal, fun and free’ – so if you have an older parent or family member in [...]

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Open Government Data – some resources

by Stephen Hilton 24/03/2010 in Bristol

I have been reading around the subject of Innovative Open Data projects with a Government / Democracy link.
Here are some of the useful resources I have been sent (thank you Brrism and Petef) or stumbled across.  If you know of any other good articles or sources of info, please share.
Economist – Of Government and Geeks
Tim [...]

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Bristol City Council – Discussion on new Website

by Stephen Hilton 09/03/2010 in Bristol

Started the day at Colston Hall (which has to be the best Bristol City Council meeting venue) for a gathering of 30-40 Bristol digital companies and organisations, kindly convened by Mike Bennet of Bristol Media, on behalf of Bristol City Council’s IT and Communications Teams.
The aim was to start a conversation about the Council’s plans [...]

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First Meeting of Bristol Innovative Data Projects Group – aka “Freeing-up Council Data”

by Stephen Hilton 08/03/2010 in Bristol

As Tim Berners Lee calls for Governments, Scientists and Institutions to make their data openly available on the Web and Government launches its Open Data Portal this afternoon we held the first meeting of our Innovative Data Projects group – this is just one of the new “20-20” projects that the the recent Council Budget [...]

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Bristol project on saving energy by using ICT shortlisted for European Award only a month after its launch

by Kevin 23/11/2009 in Bristol

A major new Bristol project on saving energy by using information and communication technology has been shortlisted for the European ICT for Energy Efficiency Project Award – only a month after its launch.
On 1st November Connecting Bristol launched www.greenaddict.eu a web site on the greener use of ICT.
The website was developed [...]

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If Facebook was a Country it would have the World’s 4th highest population

by Kevin 13/11/2009 in Bristol

Social media has been the standout success story at the heart of Web 2.0. It’s brought us opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues, old school friends and professional networks, as well as any number of niche interest offerings (69,000 people have joined the ‘Physics Doesn’t Exist, Its All Gnomes‘ Facebook group).
The number of people [...]

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